🔦 Shifting Perspective with MS 🦚
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Our minds constantly have messy thoughts that circulate through our brain. As women living with MS, shifting your perspective can make a big difference, bringing more peace and joy into your life.
🔦Shifting Perspective with MS 🦚
When you live with MS (and fatigue) plus all the other attributes that go with it, sometimes life can get pretty messy in our heads. I’m referring to the messiness of our thoughts.
In fact, all people, no matter what their circumstances, MS or no MS, have messiness in their minds. My philosophy is as people who live with MS, our thoughts might be a little messier at times. This is where perspective shifting is most helpful.
In episode number three, I talked about how swimming was a place that I go to that takes me away from thinking about MS. When I forget about MS, I'm joyous. I'm in the moment. It's pleasurable. It can be very freeing.
One thing I noticed while I was swimming with my goggles on, I could see the top of the water, layers of bubbles. This was so cool. How does this tie to my messy mind? Well, I was reflecting on this during my swim and I was thinking, I'm looking up and yet, I'm underneath the water.
This reminded me of how I am seeing and experiencing these bubbles from another perspective. In fact a different perspective. Isn’t it interesting to look at something from a different angle or point of view?
It often can take away the messiness of our thoughts and take us into a different perspective.
This change or shift in perspective is easier than we imagine it to be.
Studies were done, I can't remember the exact percentage, maybe it's 80% or more of our thoughts are recycled. They are thoughts we think about over and over and over again.
This applies to thoughts we don't want. The thoughts we wish we could flush down the toilet, right?
These are the thoughts that go through our brain over and over and over again. So while I was looking up at the layers of water with all the air bubbles that were coming out of my nose, I was wowed, this is really interesting. I'm having a totally different experience in this moment while swimming in the lake.
It was fascinating to witness how I was just slightly underneath the water.
I believe that when we can shift our perspective, just even for a few moments at a time, we can see things through a different lens.
This can be really powerful and it can take us away in the moment from this messiness that we have in our heads. I encourage you to think about a time in this moment where you might be able to shift perspective on a thought that has been spinning around in your brain.
What if you were to freeze this thought, like you were taking a picture of it and then you looked at it from outside your personal situation, as if the picture was a unwanted story in someone else’s life.
From this point of view, how might your perspective shift?
Give it a try and see what comes to you.
Practicing perspective shifting will make a big difference to how you handle repetitive thoughts that come in and out of your consciousness.
About Jen
I'm Jen DeTracey and I'm the founder of Women Thriving with MS. I helps women go from Surviving with MS, to Striving with MS to Thriving with MS. I do that through coaching our, online programs the YouTube channel, Facebook group that's free and membership and so much more.
Jen's been living with multiple sclerosis for over 12 years. She went through this process of surviving with MS to striving MS to thriving MS. She is a guide, coach and teacher who helps you move forward on your journey from surviving to thriving with MS.
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